Bug 459862 – [TRACKER] Packages not using pkg-config to find xft — Failing with multilib-aware freetype

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2013-03-01 12:21:27 UTC]

If you got a bug reported that blocks this tracker, it means your package uses x11-libs/libXft but does not use pkg-config to find it.

Due to the freetype changes for multilib support, it would then fail to build.

Please update your package to use pkg-config if you can. Thanks.

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2013-03-03 20:04:34 UTC]

I'll just add here, for the record, that finding proper compile/link flags using pkg-config is not limited to libXft. pkg-config should be used to find *all* X.Org-provided libraries as it's the only method supported by upstream.

The venerable AC_PATH_X / AC_PATH_XTRA are thus not supported by X.Org.

Cheers

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2013-03-12 21:40:02 UTC]

Due to the issue count, we've decided to move the headers back. Therefore, feel free not to fix the Gentoo packages to use pkg-config.

However, it is still preferable to at least file bugs to upstreams which aren't aware of the real necessity of using pkg-config here.

[Comment 3 Matt Turner 2017-03-05 03:45:07 UTC]

I don't think this tracker is useful anymore.